Higher coffee consumption associated with lower liver cancer risk June 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A new large, prospective population-based study confirms an inverse relationship between coffee consumption and liver cancer risk. The study also found that higher levels of gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) in the blood were ... | |
Cancer 'cure' in mice to be tested in humans June 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. | |
 Blue light used to harden tooth fillings stunts tumor growth June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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A blue curing light used to harden dental fillings also may stunt tumor growth, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. | |
Cancer cells revert to normal at specific signal threshold, researchers find July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Cancer starts when key cellular signals run amok, driving uncontrolled cell growth. But scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine report that lowering levels of one cancer signal under a specific threshold ... | |
Death, division or cancer? Newly discovered checkpoint process holds the line in cell division July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Each day, a staggering number of cells perform a feat that still amazes researchers with its complexity: they divide to produce perfect replicas of each other. The process is called mitosis, and an inability to control it ... | |
Researchers find molecule that kills kidney cancer cells July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Kidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: surgery to remove the organ. | |
Researchers discover link between organ transplantation and increased cancer risk July 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Researchers have determined a novel mechanism through which organ transplantation often leads to cancer, and their findings suggest that targeted therapies may reduce or prevent that risk. | |
Researchers identify cancer preventive properties in common vitamin supplement July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Early laboratory research has shown that resveratrol, a common dietary supplement, suppresses the abnormal cell formation that leads to most types of breast cancer, suggesting a potential role for the agent in breast cancer ... | |
Faulty DNA repair could be a risk factor for lung cancer in nonsmokers June 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
People who have never smoked but whose cells cannot efficiently repair environmental insults to DNA are at higher risk of developing lung cancer than those with effective genomic repair capability, according to researchers ... | |
Discovery of gene mechanism could bring about new ways to treat metastatic cancer July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have uncovered how a gene, melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24), induces a bystander effect that kills cancer cells ... | |
Cancer researchers call for ethnicity to be taken into account July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person's ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in today's Lancet (18 July) by researchers from Imperial ... | |
Circulating tumor cells can reveal genetic signature of dangerous lung cancers July 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have shown that an MGH-developed, microchip-based device that detects and analyzes tumor cells in the bloodstream can be used to determine the genetic signature of lung tumors, ... | |
Blood vessel inhibitor shows promise against metastatic thyroid cancer July 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Thyroid cancer that has spread to distant sites has a poor prognosis, but an experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation can slow disease progression in some patients, a research team led by investigators ... | |
Treating rare breast cancer with radiation therapy may lower recurrence rate July 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Patients with a rare type of breast cancer may benefit from receiving radiation therapy in addition to surgery to prevent recurrence, according to a study in the July issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, ... | |
Researchers locate and image prostate cancer as it spreads to lymph nodes July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to locate the diseased cells as they spread to the ... | |
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